. >> ifill: you start the list, to you go to mexico, every -- >> the entire north american continent. >> mali had a very good night. >> it came up several times. >> woodruff: david, it did seem to me that mitt romney had a clear strategy of not trying to get-- not only not get rattled, but to be agreeable, to be as you said a minute ago, presidential, above the fray. i think i counted at least three or four times where he said stepping back here, to take a bigger picture. >> partly he's got it distance himself frankly from the bush administration. some perception that he is republican, will get us into a lot of wars. he mentioned peace more than george mcgovern probably did in equal debates. then a lot of the swing voters are women. and he doesn't want to feel too aggressive and too hostile so he wants to feel somebody who is secure, someone you can trust. and then finally he just wants to seem presidential. and so those were obviously the three goals and there is one thing if you give mitt romney some goals he will stick to them. >> ifill: was it me, mark or was the president also tr